Emma Semaan is a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Law and a member of Exeter College. Her research primarily focuses on the regulation of technology and digital privacy from a holistic and comparative perspective, primarily in the jurisdictions of the United States and European Union. She is interested in ideas of ‘autonomy’ related to privacy incursions online and engages in explorations of how to best understand autonomy (and protect it) in the digital era.
Her MPhil thesis on co-regulation for digital technology was awarded with distinction at Mansfield College in Oxford. Before her time at Oxford, Emma lived and worked in Washington, DC, where she occasionally returns to work with rights-focused non-profit organizations. She contributes her expertise on privacy and technology to work towards policies that facilitate better protections for citizens online, most recently as a Fellow with New America’s Open Technology Institute.
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